Example sentences of "have [pos pn] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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1 | Being a lapsed nob has its compensations for Bubbles when young Sloane wife Phoebe Fenton ( Francesca Brill ) refuses to leave the compound after a fortnight of sleeping with him , much to the chagrin of hubby Ian ( Gareth Forwood ) . |
2 | The ITC has its reasons for such mealy-mouthedness . |
3 | But the Phnom Penh government also has its reasons for favouring instability . |
4 | ‘ The deployment of sexuality has its reasons for being , not in reproducing itself , but in proliferating , innovating , annexing , creating , and penetrating bodies in an increasingly detailed way , and in controlling populations in an increasingly comprehensive way . ’ |
5 | This liberal attitude has its benefits for the university . |
6 | This has its advantages for the mother . |
7 | Overlooking the Daily Express building has its advantages for Drury House staff . |
8 | This necessity of the pace of social and industrial change has its implications for teaching method : the student must increasingly develop and practise the skills of enquiry and discovery , in order to experience the confidence and pleasure of it and to be able to make fullest use of " recurrent education " possibilities and requirements in later life . |
9 | However , Sage feels the system has its attractions for small businesses , particularly if they intend to network Sage software and want guarantees of system compatibility . |
10 | Oh , I 've had my suspicions for a while now , not that I was the only one . |
11 | Nevertheless the serial monogamy of kings is likely to have had its implications for the rivalries between their heirs . |
12 | Both the Winchester Housing Trust and the St. Mary Church Association had had their plans for low cost housing in the village refused . |
13 | As Miles has said , the Whistler 's had his kicks for tonight . ’ |
14 | ‘ If she finds me with you she 'll have my eyes for marbles . ’ |
15 | Otherwise my people will have my balls for breakfast . |
16 | If Jake found out he would have her guts for garters ! |
17 | Thorfinn would have his reasons for whatever he did . |
18 | Whatever you do do n't go charging down to Colchester they 'll have your guts for garters . |
19 | By the third day I expect third-years to work alone , and if you slip up , gal , I 'll have your guts for garters ! |
20 | I shall have your guts for garters one day . |
21 | ‘ About letting us have your papers for the Sir Edward Prendergast Collection and the Lady Prendergast Collection — the Emily Firle Collection . ’ |
22 | ‘ If you 're pissed , man , I 'll have your balls for breakfast . ’ |
23 | Mind now — drop that bale and the captain 'll have your ears for belt buckles ! |
24 | ‘ Just let Bill hear you say you 're the hostess and he 'll have your ears for horse blinkers . |
25 | By June 1990 a total of 95,000 Germans had their applications for citizenship approved by the West German embassy in Bucharest , while the mayor of Sibiu , Mircea Tomas , was reported by Tanjug as saying during a visit to Belgrade that the German community in Romania had fallen to only 80,000 . |
26 | Colin 's friends David Higgins , of Alder Road , Stockton , and Stephen Lea , of Diamond Road , Thornaby , also had their convictions for killing widow Mrs Simpson quashed by the three appeal judges . |
27 | Internationalists had their explanations for that , of course , but these failed to carry conviction in the face of the facts . |
28 | Aye they had their places for . |
29 | Sports reporting certainly had its difficulties for the live commentator , who might be held up to ridicule for a lapse of sense or grammar in the heat of the moment . |
30 | Certainly the role of Cassandra had its temptations for him , especially towards the end of his life . |